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This deeply personal labour of love for chef Brigitte Hafner winningly captures the warmth and relaxed hospitality of a domestic kitchen. The immersive open-plan space in Victoria’s Red Hill wine region encourages guests to engage in the experience as if they were in their own homes. Hafner’s blackened cooking station – loosely based on a carpenter’s workbench - sits in front of a woodfired brick hearth, where she presents a new menu each day based on seasonal produce sourced from the property. The original building, set amid a spectacular rural landscape, has been sensitively modernized by Hafner’s partner, architect Patrick Ness of Cox Architecture, and provides a complete, holistic escape from a busy world. The remarkably unfussy, functional design facilitates a focus on sustainability and longevity at every level. Despite its vintage farmhouse aesthetic, Osteria Tedesca feels very now: genuine, grounded and thoughtful. If you haven’t been, you’ll want to go.